Publications of Janice A. Radway
%% Books
@book{fds243043,
Author = {Radway, JA},
Title = {Reading the Romance: Women, Patriarchy, and Popular
Literature},
Series = {second edition and with a new introduction},
Pages = {1-276},
Publisher = {Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina
Press},
Year = {2009},
Month = {January},
ISBN = {9780807898857},
Abstract = {Originally published in 1984, Reading the Romance challenges
popular (and often demeaning) myths about why romantic
fiction, one of publishing's most lucrative categories,
captivates millions of women readers. Among those who have
disparaged romance reading are feminists, literary critics,
and theorists of mass culture. They claim that romances
enforce the woman reader's dependence on men and acceptance
of the repressive ideology purveyed by popular culture.
Radway questions such claims, arguing that critical
attention "must shift from the text itself, taken in
isolation, to the complex social event of reading." She
examines that event, from the complicated business of
publishing and distribution to the individual reader's
engagement with the text. Radway's provocative approach
combines reader-response criticism with anthropology and
feminist psychology. Asking readers themselves to explore
their reading motives, habits, and rewards, she conducted
interviews in a midwestern town with forty-two romance
readers whom she met through Dorothy Evans, a chain
bookstore employee who has earned a reputation as an expert
on romantic fiction. Evans defends her customers' choice of
entertainment; reading romances, she tells Radway, is no
more harmful than watching sports on television. "We read
books so we won't cry" is the poignant explanation one woman
offers for her reading habit. Indeed, Radway found that
while the women she studied devote themselves to nurturing
their families, these wives and mothers receive insufficient
devotion or nurturance in return. In romances the women find
not only escape from the demanding and often tiresome
routines of their lives but also a hero who supplies the
tenderness and admiring attention that they have learned not
to expect. The heroines admired by Radway's group defy the
expected stereotypes; they are strong, independent, and
intelligent. That such characters often find themselves to
be victims of male aggression and almost always resign
themselves to accepting conventional roles in life has less
to do, Radway argues, with the women readers' fantasies and
choices than with their need to deal with a fear of
masculine dominance. These romance readers resent not only
the limited choices in their own lives but the patronizing
atitude that men especially express toward their reading
tastes. In fact, women read romances both to protest and to
escape temporarily the narrowly defined role prescribed for
them by a patriarchal culture. Paradoxically, the books that
they read make conventional roles for women seem desirable.
It is this complex relationship between culture, text, and
woman reader that Radway urges feminists to address. Romance
readers, she argues, should be encouraged to deliver their
protests in the arena of actual social relations rather than
to act them out in the solitude of the imagination. In a new
introduction, Janice Radway places the book within the
context of current scholarship and offers both an
explanation and critique of the study's limitations.},
Key = {fds243043}
}
@book{fds71743,
Author = {J.A. Radway and Carl Kaestle},
Title = {Print in Motion: The Expansion of Publishing and Reading in
the United States, 1880-1945},
Booktitle = {A History of the Book in America, Vol. IV},
Publisher = {University of North Carolina Press},
Year = {2008},
Month = {Fall},
Key = {fds71743}
}
@book{fds243046,
Author = {J.A. Radway and Radway, JA and Gaines, K and Shank, B and Eschen,
PV},
Title = {American Studies: An Anthology},
Publisher = {Blackwell Publishers},
Year = {2008},
Month = {August},
Key = {fds243046}
}
@book{fds243047,
Author = {Radway, JA and Kaestle, C},
Title = {A History of the Book in America, Vol. IV},
Publisher = {University of North Carolina Press},
Year = {2008},
Key = {fds243047}
}
@book{fds243045,
Author = {Radway, JA},
Title = {A Feeling for Books: The Book-of-the-Month Club, Literary
Taste and Middle Class Desire},
Publisher = {Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina
Press},
Year = {1999},
Key = {fds243045}
}
@book{fds243044,
Author = {Radway, JA},
Title = {A Feeling for Books: The Book-of-the-Month Club, Literary
Taste and Middle Class Desire},
Publisher = {Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina
Press},
Year = {1997},
Month = {October},
Key = {fds243044}
}
@book{fds243042,
Author = {Radway, JA},
Title = {Reading the Romance: Women, Patriarchy, and Popular
Literature},
Publisher = {Chapel Hill and London: The University of North Carolina
Press},
Year = {1991},
Key = {fds243042}
}
@book{fds243041,
Author = {Radway, JA},
Title = {Reading the Romance: Women, Patriarchy, and Popular
Literature},
Publisher = {London: Verso Press},
Year = {1987},
Key = {fds243041}
}
%% Articles in a Journal
@article{fds243027,
Author = {Radway, JA},
Title = {Learned and Literary Print Cultures in an Age of
Professionalization and Diversification},
Booktitle = {Print In Motion: The Expansion of Publishing and Reading in
the United States, 1880-1945},
Publisher = {University of North Carolina Press},
Year = {2008},
Month = {Fall},
Key = {fds243027}
}
@article{fds243039,
Author = {Radway, JA},
Title = {What’s the Matter with Reception Study?: Some Thoughts on
the Disciplinary Origins, Conceptual Constraints and
Persistent Viability of a Paradigm},
Booktitle = {Reception Study},
Publisher = {Oxford University Press},
Editor = {Machor, J and Goldstein, P},
Year = {2008},
Key = {fds243039}
}
@article{fds243048,
Author = {Radway, JA},
Title = {Bridget Jones, Girls' Zines and the Problem of the Future:
Gender, Narrative, and Subjectivity in the
Nineties},
Journal = {Narrative},
Year = {2008},
Key = {fds243048}
}
@article{fds243049,
Author = {Radway, JA},
Title = {Little Magazines, Underground Publications and Zine
Culture},
Journal = {PMLA},
Year = {2008},
Key = {fds243049}
}
@article{fds243037,
Author = {Radway, JA},
Title = {Pisanje Cintanja romance},
Pages = {247-266},
Booktitle = {Politka teorije: Zbornik rasprava iz kulturalnigh
studija},
Publisher = {Disput Publishers, Zagreb, Croatia},
Editor = {Duda, D},
Year = {2007},
Key = {fds243037}
}
@article{fds243038,
Author = {Radway, JA},
Title = {The Library as Place, Collection, or Service: Promoting Book
Circulation in Durham, NC and at the Book-of-the-Month
Club},
Pages = {231-263},
Booktitle = {Institutions of Reading: The Social Life of Libraries in the
United States},
Publisher = {University of Massachusetts Press},
Editor = {Augst, T and Carpenter, K},
Year = {2007},
Month = {Fall},
Key = {fds243038}
}
@article{fds243025,
Author = {Radway, JA and Williams, J},
Title = {The Culture of Books: An Interview with Janice A.
Radway},
Journal = {The Minnesota Review},
Volume = {65-66},
Pages = {133-148},
Editor = {Williams, J},
Year = {2006},
Month = {Spring},
Key = {fds243025}
}
@article{fds243050,
Author = {Radway, JA},
Title = {Richard Ohmann's Voice},
Journal = {Works and Days},
Volume = {45/46},
Number = {1/2},
Pages = {1-9},
Year = {2006},
Key = {fds243050}
}
@article{fds243066,
Author = {Radway, JA},
Title = {Research Universities, Periodical Publication and the
Circulation of Professional Expertise: On the Significance
of Middlebrow Authority},
Journal = {Critical Inquiry},
Volume = {31},
Number = {1},
Pages = {203-228},
Year = {2004},
Month = {Fall},
Key = {fds243066}
}
@article{fds243036,
Author = {Radway, JA},
Title = {What’s In a Name?},
Pages = {45-75},
Booktitle = {The Futures of American Studies},
Publisher = {Duke University Press},
Editor = {Pease, D and Wiegman, R},
Year = {2003},
Key = {fds243036}
}
@article{fds243035,
Author = {Radway, JA},
Title = {Girls, Reading, and Narrative Gleaning: Crafting Repertoires
for Self-Fashioning Within Everyday Life},
Pages = {176-208},
Booktitle = {Narrative Impact: Social and Cognitive Foundations},
Publisher = {LEA Press},
Editor = {Brock, T and Green, M and Strange, J},
Year = {2002},
Key = {fds243035}
}
@article{fds243065,
Author = {Radway, JA},
Title = {What's In a Name?: Presidential Address to the American
Studies Association},
Journal = {American Quarterly},
Volume = {51},
Pages = {1-32},
Year = {1999},
Month = {March},
Key = {fds243065}
}
@article{fds243024,
Author = {Radway, JA},
Title = {Books and Reading in the Age of Mass Production: The
Book-of-the-Month Club, Middlebrow Culture and the
Transformation of the Literary Field in the U.S.,
1926-1940},
Publisher = {Per Gedins Publishers, Stockholm Sweden},
Year = {1996},
Key = {fds243024}
}
@article{fds243051,
Author = {Radway, JA},
Title = {On the Gender of the Middlebrow Consumer and the Threat of
the Culturally Fraudulant Female},
Journal = {South Atlantic Quarterly},
Pages = {871-893},
Year = {1994},
Month = {Fall},
Key = {fds243051}
}
@article{fds243064,
Author = {Radway, JA},
Title = {Beyond Mary Bailey and Old Maid Librarians: Reimagining
Readers and Thinking Reading},
Journal = {Journal of Education for Library and Information
Science},
Volume = {35},
Pages = {1-21},
Year = {1994},
Month = {Fall},
Key = {fds243064}
}
@article{fds243033,
Author = {Radway, JA},
Title = {Romance and the Work of Fantasy: Struggling with Female
Subjectivity and Sexuality at Century’s
End},
Booktitle = {Viewing, Reading, Listening: Reconceptualizing
Audiences},
Publisher = {Boulder, Colorado: Westview Press},
Editor = {Cruz, J and Lewis, J},
Year = {1993},
Key = {fds243033}
}
@article{fds243034,
Author = {Radway, JA},
Title = {Dialogue About Instituting Cultural Studies: Gerald Graff,
Janice Radway, Gita Rajan, and Robert Con
Davis},
Booktitle = {English Studies/Cultural Studies: Institutionalizing
Change},
Publisher = {Urbana: University of Illinois Press},
Editor = {Smithson, I and Sullivan, A},
Year = {1993},
Key = {fds243034}
}
@article{fds243032,
Author = {Radway, JA},
Title = {Mail Order Culture and Its Critics: The Book-of-the-Month
Club, Commodification, Consumption and the Problem of
Cultural Authority},
Pages = {512-531},
Booktitle = {Cultural Studies},
Publisher = {New York: Routledge},
Editor = {Grossberg, L and Nelson, C and Treichler, P},
Year = {1992},
Key = {fds243032}
}
@article{fds243062,
Author = {Radway, JA},
Title = {The Scandal of the Middlebrow: The Book-of-the-Month Club,
Class Fracture and Cultural Authority},
Journal = {South Atlantic Quarterly},
Volume = {89},
Pages = {703-736},
Year = {1990},
Month = {Fall},
Key = {fds243062}
}
@article{fds243063,
Author = {Radway, JA},
Title = {Ethnography Among Elites: Comparing Discourses of
Power},
Journal = {Journal of Communication Inquiry},
Year = {1990},
Month = {Fall},
Key = {fds243063}
}
@article{fds243061,
Author = {Radway, JA},
Title = {Maps and the Construction of Boundaries: A Response to
Michael Dennings},
Journal = {International Labor and Working Class History},
Volume = {37},
Pages = {19-26},
Year = {1990},
Month = {Spring},
Key = {fds243061}
}
@article{fds243031,
Author = {Radway, JA},
Title = {The Book-of-the-Month Club and the General
Reader},
Pages = {259-284},
Booktitle = {Readings in America},
Publisher = {Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press},
Editor = {Davidson, CN},
Year = {1989},
Key = {fds243031}
}
@article{fds243060,
Author = {Radway, JA},
Title = {Reception Study: Ethnography and the Problems of Dispersed
Audiences and Nomadic Subjects},
Journal = {Cultural Studies},
Volume = {2},
Pages = {359-376},
Year = {1988},
Month = {October},
Key = {fds243060}
}
@article{fds243059,
Author = {Radway, JA},
Title = {The Book-of-the-Month Club and the General Readers: On the
Uses of Serious Fiction},
Journal = {Critical Inquiry},
Volume = {14},
Pages = {516-538},
Year = {1988},
Month = {Spring},
Key = {fds243059}
}
@article{fds243058,
Author = {Radway, JA},
Title = {Reading is Not Eating: Mass-Produced Literature and the
Theoretical, Methodological, and Political Consequences of A
Metaphor},
Journal = {Book Research Quarterly},
Volume = {2},
Number = {3},
Pages = {7-29},
Publisher = {Springer Nature},
Year = {1986},
Month = {Fall},
Doi = {10.1007/BF02684575},
Key = {fds243058}
}
@article{fds243057,
Author = {RADWAY, JA},
Title = {IDENTIFYING IDEOLOGICAL SEAMS - MASS-CULTURE, ANALYTICAL
METHOD, AND POLITICAL PRACTICE},
Journal = {COMMUNICATION},
Volume = {9},
Number = {1},
Pages = {93-123},
Publisher = {GORDON BREACH SCI PUBL LTD},
Year = {1986},
Month = {January},
ISSN = {0305-4233},
url = {http://gateway.webofknowledge.com/gateway/Gateway.cgi?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:A1986C496500006&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=47d3190e77e5a3a53558812f597b0b92},
Key = {fds243057}
}
@article{fds243030,
Author = {Radway, JA},
Title = {American Studies, Reader Theory, and the Literary Text: From
the Study of Material Objects to the Study of Social
Processes},
Booktitle = {American Studies in Transition},
Publisher = {Odense, Denmark: Odense University Press},
Editor = {Nye, D and Thomsen, CK},
Year = {1985},
Key = {fds243030}
}
@article{fds243056,
Author = {Radway, JA},
Title = {Interpretive Communities and Variable Literacies: The
Functions of Romance Reading},
Journal = {Daedalus},
Volume = {113},
Pages = {49-73},
Year = {1984},
Month = {Summer},
Key = {fds243056}
}
@article{fds243055,
Author = {Radway, JA},
Title = {Women Read the Romance: The Interaction of Text and
Context},
Journal = {Feminist Studies},
Volume = {9},
Number = {1},
Pages = {53-53},
Publisher = {JSTOR},
Year = {1983},
Month = {Spring},
ISSN = {0046-3663},
url = {http://gateway.webofknowledge.com/gateway/Gateway.cgi?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:A1983QJ05600004&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=47d3190e77e5a3a53558812f597b0b92},
Doi = {10.2307/3177683},
Key = {fds243055}
}
@article{fds243029,
Author = {Radway, JA},
Title = {The Aesthetic in Mass Culture: Reading and the ’Popular’
Literary Text},
Pages = {397-429},
Booktitle = {Linguistic and Literary Studies in Eastern Europe,
Festschrift in Honor of Felix Vodicka},
Publisher = {Amsterdam: John Benjamins, B.V.},
Editor = {Steiner, P and Vroon, R},
Year = {1982},
Key = {fds243029}
}
@article{fds243054,
Author = {Radway, JA},
Title = {The Utopian Impluse in Popular Literature: Gothic Romances
and 'Feminist' Protest},
Journal = {American Quarterly},
Volume = {33},
Pages = {140-162},
Year = {1981},
Month = {Summer},
Key = {fds243054}
}
@article{fds243053,
Author = {Radway, JA},
Title = {Popular Culture as Play},
Journal = {Texas Studies in Literature and Language},
Volume = {22},
Pages = {138-153},
Year = {1980},
Month = {Summer},
Key = {fds243053}
}
@article{fds243028,
Author = {Radway, JA},
Title = {Popular Verse and Poetry},
Pages = {345-63},
Booktitle = {Handbook of American Popular Culture},
Publisher = {Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press},
Editor = {Inge, T},
Year = {1980},
Key = {fds243028}
}
@article{fds243052,
Author = {Radway, JA},
Title = {Phenomenology, Linguistics, and Popular Literature},
Journal = {The Journal of Popular Culture},
Volume = {12},
Number = {1},
Pages = {88-98},
Publisher = {WILEY},
Year = {1978},
Month = {Summer},
ISSN = {0022-3840},
url = {http://gateway.webofknowledge.com/gateway/Gateway.cgi?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:A1978FZ38700010&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=47d3190e77e5a3a53558812f597b0b92},
Doi = {10.1111/j.0022-3840.1978.00088.x},
Key = {fds243052}
}
%% Other
@misc{fds243023,
Author = {Radway, JA},
Title = {Preface to Avery F. Gordon, Ghostly Matters: Haunting and
the Sociological Imagination},
Publisher = {University of Minnesota Press},
Year = {2008},
Key = {fds243023}
}
@misc{fds243040,
Author = {Radway, JA},
Title = {Girls, Zines, and Their Afterlives: Sex, Gender, Capitalism,
and Everyday Life in the Nineties and Beyond},
Year = {2007},
Key = {fds243040}
}
@misc{fds243026,
Author = {Radway, JA},
Title = {Richard Ohmann’s Voice},
Pages = {vi-xi},
Booktitle = {Foreward to Richard Ohmann, Politics of Knowledge: the
Commercialization of the University, the Professions, and
Print Culture},
Publisher = {Wesleyan University Press},
Year = {2003},
Key = {fds243026}
}